Releases such as 2010's 4 incorporated hip-hop, psychedelic pop, and cinematic music into the group's sound, and later efforts like 2018's Night Time People contained their most radio-friendly material. They gradually began working with more vocalists, particularly Kylie Auldist, who has sung on all of their subsequent albums. On their early singles and 2006 debut album Step It Up, the band played old-fashioned, primarily instrumental funk with a strong emphasis on repeated grooves, simplicity, and low-tech recording techniques. Stevie Kaye speaks with long running, and highly influential Chinese rock group Tang Dynasty, in New Zealand as part of the Lantern Festival celebrations.Australian soul group the Bamboos progressed from bare-bones deep funk revivalists to a more ambitious, mature act, stepping up the production values and scoring radio hits in their native country. Nick Bollinger takes a listen to a set of slow songs on Morning Phase from American artist Beck.Īround the World in 80 Tunes: Ghana UndergroundĭJ and broadcaster Nick Dwyer travels to Accra, the national capital of Ghana, to take in the latest in Ghanan music, from the wild dance moves of Azonto to the nation's biggest dancehall stars. Trevor Peterson, guitarist for Brooklyn-via- Denver psychedelic group Woodsman on making mind-altering music. Wire members with Joe Nunweek at Western Springs - Photo by Matthew Crawley Influential British punk and post-punk band Wire were here for one show this week - Joe Nunweek speaks to founding members Colin Newman and Graham Lewis about their new album Change Becomes Us, and their reputation as that petulant band who refuse to play the hits. Image by Maximillan Scott-Murray/The Wireless Nick Atkinson reports back from art and music festival Splore 2014 in Tapapakanga Park Lance Ferguson of Australian funk/soul band The Bamboos tells us about his grandfather, legendary NZ steel guitarist Bill Wolfgramm. Hear an earlier interview with Brian about Awesome Tapes from Africa here. He is in NZ this week and stops by to make us a mixtape from his collection. Following the death of Wayne Smith, we look at how his song 'Under Me Sleng Teng', and the Sleng Teng Riddim changed the course of Jamaican music.īrian Schimkovitz is an American went to Ghana as an ethnomusicologist, and started a blog and record label based on the cassettes he found there.
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